Top 1200 Present Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it.

Attention-yes! That's present! And present, you see, makes past and future.

At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present.

But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not properly be applied to life itself.

Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere.

One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one's reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present.

Life is available only in the present moment.

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.

The Present is the womb of the future. A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly. Look after the present and the future will look after itself.

Be present in your work because kids live in the moment, so as soon as you're not in the present, you're not being authentic.

Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.

Life is only available in the present moment.

The place where...knowledge occurs is the present. That which recognizes the present is mind.

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

You can't really live in the past because the present is always present.

You cannot be present in an abstract way. Presence is not about disappearing into nothingness. You can only be present with something that is actually here.

I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.

I wanted to breathe new life into the timeless trend of past, present and future. These unique designs celebrate the bride and groom's passage through their new life together.

The past, as you suggest, is absolutely present at all times and the present is born from the past. I wouldn't want to suggest that the past determines the present.

Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.

The fact that we have to fight for something so essential to life as the integrity of seeds, speaks to the real drama of this present time: that we have to fight to preserve what is most fundamental and sacred to life.

Life is now in session. Are you present?

If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time-not tomorrow, nor next year, nor in some future life after we have died. The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year. Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life. Today should always be our most wonderful day.

Living in the present moment requires discretion toward memory. Without memory we'd have amnesia. What good would there be in that? Offer discretion and discernment for our past with a broad spectrum of forgiveness. As for our present moment, delight. And dedication to remain fully present to all the possibility.

Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

The best way to learn to be present and develop presence is to have the experience of someone you respect and admire being present with and for you.

Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.

I like to see the present, to work for the present, and to try to improve for the future.

We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

I'm ready to live in the present - not the past and not in the future - because in the present is where there's peace.

I try, in the present, to not exalt the past because I think that's such a way of diminishing the present. And it's hard to live like that.

Live in the present moment. The past and future are nonexistent. Only the present can be grasped or, better, embraced.

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.

The most important time in life is the present.

I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.

Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.

When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying that the task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases?

They know the outward shows of this life present but of the next life are they careless. Have they not consider the heavens and the earth and all that is between them but for a serious end, and for a fixed term? But truly most men believe not that they shall meet their Lord.

Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

Psychoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The future is not some place we’re going to, but an idea in our mind now. It is something we’re creating, that in turn creates us. The future is a fantasy that shapes our present.

I'm trying to arrange my life so I don't have to be present.

We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.

I want to be present for my kids, and my biological father wasn't present for me.

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

The art of life is to live in the present moment

It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now. When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies. We are seeing what is before us.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.

Only the present moment contains life.

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

It's in the present that lies the secret: if you pay attention to the present you will be able to enhance it.

I just live my life and try to be present.

The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.

All I want to do is to present the abundance of life on Earth.